NEBOSH

KNOW – WORKPLACE HEALTH AND SAFETY

PRINCIPLES (UK)

UNIT DN1:
For: NEBOSH Level 6 National Diploma for Occupational Health and Safety
Management Professionals

PAPER 2 OF 2
Guidance to learners

There are two question papers for this assessment. This paper (Paper 2 of 2) has 200 available
marks.

All the activities in all parts of the assessment are mandatory.

You will have 4 weeks (20 working days) to complete both papers.
Please refer to your registration confirmation email for the upload deadline.
Please note that NEBOSH will be unable to accept your assessment once the deadline has passed.
You must use the answer template for Paper 2.

This assessment is not invigilated, and you are free to use any learning resources to which you have
access, eg your course notes, or the HSE website, etc.

By submitting this completed assessment for marking, you are declaring it is entirely your own work.
Knowingly claiming work to be your own when it is someone else’s work is malpractice, which carries
severe penalties. This means that you must not collaborate with or copy work from others. Neither
should you ‘cut and paste’ blocks of text from the Internet or other sources.

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Information for learners
This paper includes activities that:
1. You must carry out in your chosen workplace;
2. require you to reflect on your practices.

Typically, the chosen workplace will be the workplace in which you normally work. However, if your
workplace is not suitable (for example it does not provide sufficient scope), you can choose any
suitable workplace, provided you can access the information you need to complete the activities in
this part.

The reflective practice activity(s) aim is for you to reflect on transferable leadership and/or
professional skills that you may already have and/or need to develop. These skills could have been
acquired through your work life (whether in health and safety or some other work activities) or your
personal life.

For instance, you may want to draw on examples where you have been chairing a meeting, or being
required to make decisions under pressure. Alternatively, you may carry out voluntary work and want
to draw on this for your examples. The examples can be from any element of your working or
personal life.

Workplace-based activities
Activity 1: Create an organisational risk profile for your chosen organisation
This section is very important. It describes the main risks that your organisation faces. The
answers you give to the remaining activities in this paper must be consistent with the
information you provide here (unless otherwise stated). For example, if the risks that you give
here relate to the banking or insurance sectors, it would be unusual to later describe a situation
where welding contractors are repairing a chemical storage tank in your own organisation.

1 Produce a risk profile of your chosen organisation that outlines FOUR

significant risks. (20)
Note: You must use the Activity 1 format table provided in the answer sheet
to record your answers.
Note: There are 5 marks available for each risk.

Activity 2: Preparing a brief research report on approaches to worker consultation

2 Prepare a brief research report that

• critically reviews how your chosen organisation consults with workers on
health and safety matters.
• evaluates the effectiveness of how your chosen organisation consults
with workers on health and safety matters.
• makes TWO recommendations for improving worker consultation in your
chosen organisation. (50)

Your research report must be presented in the following format (see marking
descriptors for further information)
• Executive summary.
• Introduction – containing aims/objectives, methodology and introduction
to the topic.
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 • Critical review – which briefly, but critically, reviews techniques for
worker consultation on health and safety matters. This must draw from
a range of reliable reference sources such as authoritative guidance,
expert opinions, and other evidence. References for the cited evidence
should use a recognised referencing style (Harvard, Vancouver,
OSCOLA, etc). The learner can choose which style to use, but the style
must be used consistently throughout the report.
• Brief analysis of the effectiveness of your chosen organisation’s worker
consultation techniques. This is effectively a brief gap analysis or
commentary comparing your organisation to good practice/effective
insights that you have determined from your critical review. It should
include examples from the workplace to support the analysis.
• Conclusion – a summary of findings that includes
- A clear outline of TWO recommendations for improving the worker
consultation techniques used in your chosen organisation.
- A justification for EACH of your recommendations. The
justifications must include links back to the research carried out
and give an indication that each recommendation will be effective.
- List of Reference sources cited.

NOTES ON WORD COUNT:

Your report must be no more than 2 500 words in total and approximately
10% of these (ie 250 words) must be used for the executive summary.
If your answer exceeds the word count NEBOSH reserves the right to not
mark any of your work beyond
• 275 words (250 words + 10% tolerance) of the executive summary,
and/or
• 2 475 words (2 250 words + 10% tolerance) of the rest of the report.

Marks will be awarded as follows:

Criteria Marks
Executive summary 3
Introduction 3
Critical review 15
Analysis 10
Conclusion 3
A clear outline of the two recommendations (3 marks for each recommendation) 6
Justification for recommendations (5 marks for each recommendation) 10

Marks will be allocated using the descriptors on the following pages.

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Descriptors

Criteria Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4

Executive
3 2 1 0
summary [max 3]
Coherent and A clear, logical The format is The format is An executive
logical format format gives clear generally good but poor, and the summary has not
giving clear information. does not flow in information is been included.
information some areas and unclear.
some information
appears to be
missing.

Adequately and Summarises main Main findings,

concisely findings, conclusions and
summarises main conclusions and recommendations
findings, the two are not well
conclusions and recommendations, summarised.
the two but some of these
recommendations. may not be
adequately
covered or they
are unclear.

Provides a Provides a case The case for

persuasive case for implementing implementation of
for implementing recommendations, the
recommendations. but this may not recommendations
be very is not persuasive.
persuasive.
Introduction
3 2 1 0
[max 3]
Clear and concise The aims and The aims and The aims and The aims and
introduction objectives are objectives are objectives are objectives have
containing all the clearly stated and given, but the described poorly. not been
necessary relate to the task detail in some The aims and included.
elements brief. areas is brief or objectives do not
unclear. relate to the task
The aims and brief.
objectives
generally relate to
the task brief.

The topic is The topic is The topic is The topic has not
clearly and introduced but the poorly been introduced.
succinctly detail in some introduced/the
introduced. areas is brief or detail is poor.
unclear.

A clear description A methodology A methodology is A methodology

of the has been outlined given but this is has not been
methodology used but this is brief or poor/unclear. given.
to carry out the unclear in some
research. areas.

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 Critical review
11-15 6-10 1-5 0
[max 15]
Critical review of Draws from a wide Draws from a Draws from a This may be a
how the range of relevant range of relevant very narrow simple opinion
organisation authoritative authoritative range of relevant piece that does
consults with sources which are sources which authoritative not make any
workers on effectively used are mostly sources. attempt to
health and safety and cited to effectively used critically review
matters support assertions. to support how the
assertions. organisation
consults with
workers.

Critically reviews Good attempt at Basic attempt at Some sources

how the critical review of a critical review may have been
organisation how the of how the accessed, but
consults with organisation organisation these may not be
workers (it does consults with consults with relevant nor
not just workers, but workers. This authoritative.
report/describe but these may not be may be mostly
also well-argued (ie simple reporting
analyses/discusses although goes of the work from
pros and cons and beyond simple sources with little
applicability). report/description attempt to
from sources, the analyse or apply.
analysis is
simplistic).

Recognised Recognised Citation A recognised

citation referencing citation referencing is not citation
system used referencing a recognised referencing
consistently. system used in system and/or is system has not
most areas. used been used.
inconsistently
throughout.
Analysis [max
8-10 4-7 1-3 0
10]
Commentary on Good, clear and Commentary is Commentary is No commentary
the effectiveness detailed generally clear poor, being and no examples
of how the commentary, but is unclear or unclear or given.
organisation drawing on findings lacking in detail lacking detail in
consults with from review, with in some areas. many areas.
workers on many relevant
health and safety examples given to Examples are Few relevant
matters illustrate. given and the examples given.
majority of these
are relevant.
Conclusions
3 2 1 0
[max 3]
Clear and Clear, concise Concise Conclusion Conclusion does
concise conclusion that conclusion that summarises not summarise
conclusion logically summarises findings but main findings but
summarises the most of the misses out some largely
main findings. important key findings. introduces new
findings. ideas.

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 Outline of two
recommendations 3 2 1 0
[max 6]
Examiners’ note: Use these levels to mark EACH of the recommendations.
Outline of the A good, clear The outline of the A poor/unclear The
recommendation outline of the recommendation outline of the recommendation
for improving recommendation is generally recommendation has not been
worker has been given. good, but more has been given. outlined.
consultation on information could
health and safety have been
matters provided in some
areas.
Justification for
each
5 3-4 1-2 0
recommendation
[5 each, max 10]
Examiners’ note: Use these levels to mark EACH of the recommendations.
Justification for the A good, clear The justification The justification A justification has
recommendation justification has given is generally given is poor. not been given.
been given for clear.
the
recommendation.

The justification The justification The justification

refers to main mostly refers to is simplistic,
body findings on main body lacks detail in
the effectiveness findings on the most areas and
of how the effectiveness of is not convincing.
organisation how the It is not clearly
consults with organisation linked to the
workers on consults with main body
health and safety workers on findings.
matters. health and safety
matters.

The justification The justification

is well-argued is based on
and is based on effectiveness as
effectiveness as well as other
well as other business factors
business factors such as cost.
such as cost.

Activity 3: Transferable leadership skills

3 Compare your own leadership style against the characteristics of an authentic

leader. You should identify EIGHT authentic leader characteristics and show
how these are, or are not, reflected in your own leadership style.
You must use relevant personal examples to support your answer. (20)
Note: You must use the Task 3 format table provided in the answer sheet to
record your answers.

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Activity 4: Analysing strengths and weaknesses against high reliability organisation
(HRO) characteristics

4 (a) Analyse how your chosen organisation performs against BOTH of the
following HRO characteristics
• containment of unexpected events
• learning orientation. (10)
Note: There are 5 marks available for each characteristic.

(b) Based on your analysis in part (a), give details of TWO recommendations
that could improve HRO characteristics in your chosen organisation. You
must justify why you have chosen each of the recommendations. (10)
Note: The recommendations can be drawn from just 'containment of
unexpected events' or from just 'learning orientation' or you could give a
recommendation for each characteristic.
Note: There are 5 marks available for each recommendation.

Activity 5: Management of contractors

5 Review how your chosen organisation selects contractors and manages them
while they are on site.

Your answer must consider the main topics from INDG368, specifically
• identification of job
• criteria for selection of contractors
• assessing the risks from the work
• provision of information, instruction and training
• co-operation and co-ordination
• consultation with workforce
• management and supervision of contractors while on site
• relevant legal requirements. (20)
Note: You must use suitable examples from your chosen organisation to
illustrate your answer.

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Activity 6: Reviewing health and safety performance

6 (a) Critique your chosen organisation’s health and safety management

review process against the following steps (20)
• setting objectives
• identifying types of information to be collected
• considering the supply chain
• considering incidents in similar organisations.
Note: You must use suitable examples from your chosen organisation to
illustrate your answer.
Note: There are 5 marks available for each step.

Source: HSE HSG65 Managing for health and safety (hse.gov.uk)

(b) Based on your part (a) responses, make THREE recommendations for
improvements to the review process. (15)
Note: You must use suitable examples from your chosen organisation to
illustrate your answer.
Note: There are 5 marks available for each recommendation.

Activity 7: Sensible and proportionate risk management

7 Risk management in an organisation should be both sensible and proportionate

to the level of risk involved.

Describe your chosen organisation’s approach to risk management AND

comment on whether this approach is sensible. You must support your answer
with THREE relevant examples from your chosen organisation. (15)

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Activity 8: Key principles of organisational change

8 Select a recent or future change that your chosen organisation has carried out,
or is planning to carry out.
(a) Provide a description of what the change is and what it is intended to do. (5)
(b) How has your chosen organisation either managed, or is intending to
manage, the change compared to the following key principles (15)
• evidence that the direct effects on control of hazards have been
identified AND assessed
• evidence that the indirect effects on control of hazards have been
identified AND assessed
• evidence that the effect of too many simultaneous changes have
been considered
• evidence of phased changes
• evidence of realistic and systematic planning.

Note: There are 3 marks available for each key principle.

Source: HSE’s ‘Key principles of managing organisational change’
https://www.hse.gov.uk/humanfactors/topics/orgchange.htm

End of assessment
Now follow the instructions on submitting your answers.

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